Dear Colleagues,

It is well known that the environment can be a source of stressors, such as air pollution, harmful chemicals, etc., that may negatively affect health. Unwanted material released into the atmosphere by human activity, mostly due to expanded industrialization, is the world’s largest environmental cause of disease, including respiratory and cardiovascular pathologies, allergies, metabolic diseases, cancer and also premature death. 

Environmental exposure science is the study of our body’s impact through inhalation (breathing), ingestion (swallowing) or direct contact (touching) with environmental hazards and their negative effects on human health. The fundamental action in particular nanomaterials widely used in biomedicine, biotechnology and environmental industry has been taken into account in the last few decades.

New findings and significant advances in the science of exposure will be able to elucidate the pathogenetic mechanisms of the increasing morbidity and mortality due to environmental toxicants and to provide measures for the prevention.

This Special Issue intends to collect contributions aimed at improving current knowledge on the harmful effects of environmental exposure on human health and, in particular, to improve the understanding of how the toxicants, transported across land, air and water, can affect our bodies and develop diseases.

High-quality, original research articles focused on exposure science, which may also suggest protective and preventive actions for human health, will be welcomed. The Special Issue also accepts perspectives, reviews and commentaries making important contributions in the field of environmental health.

Authors are encouraged to submit papers focused on one of the following goals:

• Assessments of current levels and patterns of exposure to contaminants in occupational and environmental settings, including indoor environments
• Human pathologies, including metabolic diseases, related to toxic substance absorption
• Relationship between prenatal/early life harmful chemical exposure and pathologies in both children and adults

Submissions of theories, general commentaries and articles indirectly related to the above-listed topics will be considered as well.

Prof. Dr. Anna Maria Lavezzi
Dr. Bruno Ramos-Molina
Guest Editors

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• harmful environmental chemicals
• human health impact
• toxicology
• nanoparticles
• exposure assessment
• risk management